The Witness

I have been playing The Witness.

And, while enjoying the scenery and wandering around a bit,

have mostly been banging my dumb head

against the aggravating puzzles.

While I am glad someone finally made a great (console)(spiritual) successor to Myst and Obsidian,

I am not pleased to discover I that I am not very bright.

I'm not even that far into the game

and there have already been two locations where I could not even begin the section

because I couldn't even figure out the first damn puzzle.

And since the puzzles

(at least the ones I've come across so far)

are mostly sequential, you have to figure out the

key/pattern that will help you progress

and unlock the cable to the next puzzle.

Sounds simple doesn't it?

Well, it's anything but that.

 

What, for the love of God,

do the squares inside the squares mean??

I can't figure that one out and it's shown up again

when I peeked into another area.

So far I've completed the entry garden,

the little bunker outside the garden,

that symmetry/boat house area,

the desert ruins area

(except for puzzle that opens the bunker door by the sea)

the pink orchard,

and the two puzzle installations before the pink orchard.

 

Now that I'm writing this I think I've only activated two lasers.

Oh--I did get the windmill going--

which I noticed has a puzzle on it's face

and which I'm sure will haunt me later-

but that area underneath with the video--is bizarre.

I wasn't able to solve any of those puzzles.

 

I did solve two puzzles in--shit-

I don't where or what the area is called

but--whatever--I've stopped playing for now.

I would sit there after work staring at the screen so long

trying to figure out a pattern/path

and would eventually feel what energy I had left

just fade right out of me.

I kept nodding out.

 

So I bought Call of Duty: Black Ops III.

I'll be battling rouge operatives

and storming enemy camps in Singapore at night.

And during the day (on the weekends)

I'll wrestle with The Witness--

on the island of mind bending puzzles--

since I'll be armed with fresh coffee

and a clear head from a full night's sleep.

Done